It’s happening.
        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          10 days ago

          I mean… either they introduce ads, or they start charging for the service.

          VC funding only lasts so long, and they have bills to pay (and probably shares to sell).

          • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            10 days ago

            And that’s the problem. Sure, it’s better than threads or xitter now. The business model dictates that it will sink to the same level.

        • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          And that’s when I leave Bluesky too. Meta goes down within a month and the clock is ticking for Bluesky. I’ll stay in the fediverse.

    • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        17·
        10 days ago

        The enshittification is carried over from other products. They’re meta, so anything they launch is partly along the path already, because they can artificially boost the launch numbers with cross-platform promotion, and because everyone already knows what assholes they are, they’re starting off with a lot of goodwill lost.

        Basically, just slapping a new name and a new account creation process on some new features in their social network, is not enough to make it a new network.

  • katy ✨English
    52·
    11 days ago

    Last time I checked Threads was 95% brand and influencer posts anyway.

    • winni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Ha you are saying that there’s nobody left? the remaining 5% must be robots lol

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        You know that you are saying this on a platform with an active user base in the low 6 figures, right?

        You know the meme “there’s dozens of us”?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    33·
    11 days ago

    My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I’m assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      11 days ago

      My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I’m assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?

      Things don’t really federate out with ActivityPub, they federate in. To receive off-site content, you have to subscribe to it.

      Who is going to subscribe to a Threads ad bot?

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        10·
        11 days ago

        Right, and I’m assuming Threads works on the Mastodon-style user follow paradigm, which means, currently, anyway, Lemmy wouldn’t be able to follow them directly.

        But the ad-bot could, in theory, tag a Lemmy community and have that show up on Lemmy (at least, that seems to be how Mastodon content arrives here).

    • katy ✨English
      18·
      11 days ago

      If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they’d probably be blocked so fast by every instance.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 days ago

      Yes this is so confusing to me. There was a blast of attention about it when it was launched that lasted like a week max and then everyone completely forgot about it. I thought it was a short-run experiment that got shut down. What reason is there to use threads? Are there any actual humans who still use it? I’ve never visited it but something tells me that it’s just like reddit with at most 100 real users and the rest is just bots replying to bots.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Yup. If you only follow Lemmy, you’ll be completely confused at:

          • why Tesla/X/other Musk stuff still exists
          • how Trump won if nobody supported him
          • how Meta is still in business if the only thing people use is their cheap VR headsets

          There’s a lot of stuff we don’t see here.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    When threads first saw its posts on Lemmy [when Lemmy first started posting about threads], I was reading one and a coworker looked over my shoulder and gasped. I looked up at her, and she said, “what is that?? And why is the logo a pubic hair?!” Good times.

    Edit. Clarification.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      23·
      11 days ago

      I’m honestly amazed they didn’t have ads out of the gate, Meta’s whole schtick is advertising and data.

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        20·
        11 days ago

        They thought they could EEE the fediverse first.

        Turns out people on decentralised social media aren’t totally fucking brain dead and could see it coming a mile away.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        9·
        11 days ago

        Facebook famously didn’t have ads for a long time, even when people were pressuring Zuck to add them to keep the site from going running out of capital. Call it a loss leader, call it enshittification or market capture, whatever. Most companies that can afford to will start out being really great to their users, and once they have captured a section of the market, they start clawing more of that value back for themselves and their investors.